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Joseph Twichell addressed a letter to Francis Gillette, accepting the church’s call to serve as their pastor.
The committee to recommend a pastor was formed on November 2, 1864.
Gillette was not an original appointee to the search committee, but Twichell addressed him as the chair of the committee. It isn’t clear when Gillette joined the committee and when, then, the committee made him chair.
Twichell will be installed as pastor on December 13, 1865.
Twichell addressed the letter from Hartford.
As read by Atwood Collins, Twichell wrote: “It gives me great pleasure to notify you that after long and prayerful deliberation, aided by the counsels of godly and competent men, I have become persuaded that it is my duty toward God, toward the people whom you represent, and toward myself, to accept the call you have extended to me to the pastorate of the Asylum Hill congregational Church.”
Swartz, Melva J., “Hill Church Will Observe Anniversary,” Hartford Courant, March 18, 1940, page 1.
Unattributed, “Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Twichell Honored at Anniversary of His Church,” Hartford Courant, March 24, 1915, page 16.
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